Elijah Newren <newren@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > No, it is not more like that; the check-ignore manpage currently claims this: > > For each pathname given via the command-line or from a file via > --stdin, check whether the file is excluded by .gitignore (or > other input files to the exclude mechanism) and output the path > if it is excluded. Thanks. I wasn't paying attention to what happened to the manpage (or to the command for that matter) after I wrote it as a debugging aid X-<. The updated version looked reasonable to me. Thanks.